Whether it is for a video, a podcast or an audio-clip, it is sometimes necessary to include subtitles to help your participants understand what is being said or perhaps add simple notes or explanations to complement or clarify certain topics.
Here is a separate guide on how to create subtitles using an external tool!
Subtitles can be embedded directly into a video file, stored online and linked to, or you can upload a file containing your subtitles directly. These subtitles must be stored in a .txt file and should look something like this:
WEBVTT
00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:07,000
Hello! My name is Mark and I'll be your narrator for this module. Welcome to this introductory e-learning course on English.
00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:11,000
Let's start this exercise with a proper greeting. Hello! Nice to meet you.
00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:21,500
When introducing yourself it is important to speak clearly and avoid talking too quickly.
WEBVTT is a format definition and must be included at the beginning of the file for Author to recognize it as proper subtitles.
After that we have two timecodes and a bit of text. The timecodes are split into hour : minute : second, millisecond
h : m : s : ms h : m : s : ms
↓↓ ↓↓ ↓↓ ↓↓↓ ↓↓ ↓↓ ↓↓ ↓↓↓
00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:07,000
Hello! My name is Mark and I'll be your narrator for this module. Welcome to this introductory e-learning course on English.
Hello! My name is Mark and I'll be your narrator for this module. Welcome to this introductory e-learning course on English.
The two timecodes define when the text below will show up on screen and when it disappears. In the example above, the first line appears 1 second into the video/audio clip and disappears at 7 seconds and is immediately replaced with line two. After the second line there is a 4 second break where the screen is intentionally left blank until line 3 starts at 15 seconds in.
Note: It is recommended to only set the milliseconds to either 000 or 500 due to system limitations.
Note: Author can handle both "," and "." to separate seconds and milliseconds, but we recommend that you choose one and do not mix different ways of writing.
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